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Surfside condo collapse site purchased for $120 million to make way for luxury residential high-rise

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DAMAC Properties, a Dubai-based luxury real estate developer, has agreed to pay $120 million for the site where 98 people died in June when the Champlain Towers South residential tower collapsed in Surfside, Florida.

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Cobe and Yellon win Stockholm's historic gasworks residential tower competition

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A pair of Scandinavian firms have been selected as winners of an international competition to design a new residential tower on the site of the newly remade gasworks district in Stockholm, Sweden.

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Minimalist concrete apartments fill a narrow site in Tokyo, designed by Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture

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Tokyo -based Ryuichi Sasaki Architecture has completed a residential scheme in the western part of the Japanese capital defined by an exposed concrete structure on a constrained site. According to the designers, the three-unit scheme “emphasizes maximal utilization of natural energy and pursues comfortable livability.”

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Site preparations begin for Norman Foster’s One Beverly Hills

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Site preparations are underway in Los Angeles in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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The 11 most threatened modern sites across the U.S.

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In response to the recent surprise demolition of Marcel Breuer’s Geller I house on Long Island, modernist conservation group Docomomo US has released its first-ever list of the 11 most threatened modern sites in the United States.

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ODA plans new residential development in East Williamsburg

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ODA-Architecture has revealed plans for a new residential project under construction in Brooklyn that will deliver 336 units of studio, one-, and two-bedroom apartments.

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Site preparations begin for Norman Foster’s West Hollywood project, One Beverly Hills

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Site preparations are underway in West Hollywood in advance of the 50-month construction phase that will bring the Foster + Partners -designed One Beverly Hills residential towers to a plot adjacent to the Beverly Hilton and other area hospitality icons. acre site that includes another 8.5-acre acre site that includes another 8.5-acre

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